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Business Forsyth County & News Thursday, Industry May 6,2004
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Business Licenses
Editor’s note: The following
business licenses for February and
March were filed with the Business
License Division of the Forsyth
County Planning and Development
Department:
• Ad Nauseam, 1293 Dalesford
Drive, Alpharetta; owner: Cayta
Jordan, Alpharetta
• Adams Casework Installations,
7310 Fields Drive, Cumming,
owner: Jay Adams, Cumming.
•Addison Securities, 1445
Liberty Lane, Cumming, owner:
Adrry Addison, Cumming.
• Advantage Building
Maintenance, 8330 Deliah Way,
Alpharetta, owner: William
Schaub, Gainesville.
• AFF Construction and
Remodeling, 9725 Windsor Way,
Gainesville, owner: Flore Aron,
Gainesville.
• ALH Home Improvement,
4805 Rose Arbor Court, Cumming,
owner: Anthony Holbrook,
Cumming.
• Alpha Accumulator, 1370-G
Union Hill Industrial Center,
Alpharetta, owner: David
Robinson, Alpharetta.
• American Dream Real Estate
Investments, 5540 Buck Hollow
Drive, Alpharetta, owner: Joesph
Mosely, Alpharetta.
• American Home Design Inc.,
1007-G Union Center Drive,
Alpharetta, owner: Mike Pour,
Alpharetta.
• Apago Inc., 4080 McGinnis
Ferry Road, Suite 601. Alpharetta,
owner: Dwight Kelly, Cumming.
• The Art of Cycling, 2195
Eagle Trace, Cumming, owner:
Paul Noble, Cumming.
Astrolabe Land Solutions LLC,
4005 Princeton Trace, Cumming,
owner: Anthony Sharp, Cumming.
• Atlanta Wildlife Soultions
Inc., 1770 Independence Trail,
Cumming, owner: Chad
Artimovich, Cumming.
• Barker & Truong, DD, PC,
546 Lakeland Plaza, Cumming,
owner: Phuongthao Truong,
Cumming.
• Bee Sales, Inc., 4115 Preston
Pointe Way, Cumming, owner:
M.H. Borland Jr., Cumming.
• Bluesky Outdoor Signs Inc.,
4190 Morningside Drive,
Cumming, owner: D.G. Murphy,
Cumming.
• BMA Enterprises LLC, 1410
Woodland Trace, Cumming, owner:
Alexander Wyckoff, Cumming.
• Brieva Enterprises Inc., 630
Rosebury Lane, Suwanee, owner:
Elizabeth Porterfield, Suwanee.
• Herman Bruns Inc., 4945
Chatsworth Lane, Suwanee, owner:
Herman Bruns, Suwanee.
• C&J Siding Inc., 5057 Elrod
Circle, Cumming, owners: Jason
Sanford and Chris Kyle, Cumming.
• Sean Cain Pool Services, 144
Windy Hill Court, Alpharetta,
owner: Sean Cain, Alpharetta.
• Chapman General Contractor,
4424 Twin Lakes Road, Cumming,
owner: Donald Chapman,
Cumming.
• Children’s Cardiovascular
Medicine, 3890 Johns Creek
Parkway, Suwanee, owner: Eduardo
Montana, Marietta.
• Cingular Wireless 3651
Peachtree Parkway, Atlanta, owner:
Cingular Wireless, Atlanta.
• Circle M Food Shop, 5430
Bannister Road, Gainesville,
owner: Tom L. Bower III,
Gainesville.
• Cochran Inspect-All Inc., 3550
Wofford Drive, Cumming, owner:
James Cochran, Cumming.
• Copia Resource Management
Inc. 1725 Monarch Court,
Cumming, owner: Carlton Godfrey,
Cumming.
• Creating Space Inc., 6560
Cold Stream Drive, Cumming,
owner: Creating Space, Cumming.
• CST Biorecovcry, 1064 Union
Center Drive Suite B-14,
Alpharetta, owner: Isabella
Maduka, Alpharetta.
•Curves, 1795 Pilgrim Mill
Road, Suite 400, Cumming, owner:
Linda Frakcs, Cumming.
• Custom Interior Designs, 4738
Aldbury Lane, Suwanee, owner:
Beth Bourquin, Suwanee.
• Devil’s Den Paintball, 1610
Indian Way, Cumming, owner:
Christopher Brooks, Cumming.
• Edgewater Pools, Inc., 2215
Forest Drive, Cumming, owner:
Rustin Kilburg, Cumming.
• Charles M. Enchill
See LICENSES, Page 2B
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Commissioners consider fire
By Antonia Hertwlg-Benson
Staff Writer
Fire safety in new and existing
subdivisions was on the minds of the
Board of Commissioners and Fire
Chief Danny Bowman at Monday
evening’s board meeting.
As developers requested permits
to build communities throughout the
county, the board set the county’s
minimum fire flow — the amount of
water pressure required for a speci¬
fied gallons per minute (gpm) — at
750 gpm.
“In our county standards the only
residential requirements we have are
600 to 750 units,” Bowman said.
He said that over the past few
years, the department began asking
for higher fire code requirements.
“We feel like anything that has
over 100 lots needs to have at least
1,000 gallons a minute,” Bowman
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Earth-moving equipment await their next task at a construction site on Marketplace Boulevard near
Buford Dam Road. Among the businesses planned are the First National Bank of Forsyth County.
Urbina is Forsyth’s only female farrier
By Antonia Hertwlg-Benson
Staff Writer
Jennifer Urbina of Cumming has
always had a love for horses, which
she says is why she loves both of her
jobs.
Urbina is a certified farrier — or
horseshoer — and an equine inspec¬
tor for the Georgia Department of
Agriculture’s equine division. She
currently works with neglected
and/or abused horses.
A former resident of Kissimmee,
Fla., Urbina is Forsyth County’s only
certified female farrier.
Ginger Casey, co-owner of Casey
and Sons Horseshoeing School in
LaFayette, said Urbina is the only
female certified through her school’s
program — the Brotherhood of
Working Farriers Association
(B.W.F.A.) — on record.
Casey said that although Urbina
is the only female certified in the
county, it doesn’t mean there aren't
other female farriers in north
Georgia.
“The general public may think it’s
not as common as men,” she said.
“But according to the American
Quarter Horse Association
(A.Q.H.A.), there arc more women
horse owners than men.”
After she graduated from
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College with an associate's degree in
both animal science and livestock
health, Urbina enrolled at Casey and
Sons Horseshoeing School and
earned her certification three monlhs
later through B.W.F.A.
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Other board members’ safety con¬
cerns included spacing between
homes and the building material used
on newer homes.
Commission Chairman Jack
Conway motioned to approve several
subdivisions, but made approval con¬
ditional on the developer building
with non-combustible materials like
brick and hardiplank.
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Farrier Jennifer Urbina shows a horse’s hoof she is working on.
Casey said Urbina is a certified
Apprentice II “because she just fin¬
ished school."
She added that to achieve higher
certifications, Urbina must have far¬
rier experience.
Urbina said one of the main rea¬
sons why it’s good to have a female
farrier is because of horse tempera¬
ments.
"A lot of horses are gender specif¬
ic," she said.
Urbina said that though she has
said.
He said irriga¬
tion demands in
larger subdivisions
would portend the
need for increasing
the amount of gal¬
lons per minute, as
irrigation systems
may be running at
the same time the
department is trying
started her own company, No Hoof
No Horse Horseshoeing, which spe¬
cializes in hot, cold and corrective
shoeing, she said her future plan is to
have her own bam with horses. She
also plans to attend school at cither
Colorado State University or the
University of Georgia to receive her
certification in artificial insemination
— allowing her to work in the area
of breeding.
For more information, or to con¬
tact Urbina, call (770) 361-7914.
Commissioner A.J. Pritchett said
he was concerned with the number of
homes the commission was allowing
per acre.
“I just don’t like it,” Pritchett
said. “It doesn’t look good.”
He said that “stacking these hous¬
es on top of each other” only maxi¬
mizes profits for the developer and
that there needed to be balance
between the density of the homes
and affordability.
One idea Pritchett gave was
attaching homes to make town
homes, which would afford more
space between each unit, instead of
detached homes, 10 feet from each
other.
He said he felt 10 feet between
homes is not sufficient spacing and is
hazardous for the residents and fire¬
fighters “no matter what the home is
made of.”
“It’s not an issue of affordability,
it’s maximizing profits,” he said.
In other action at the meeting, the
Board of Commissioners:
• Approved Regent Land
Holdings’ request to rezone 11.47
acres from an industrial district to a
commercial business district. The
action clears the way for construction
of Forsyth County’s first five-story
building. The property will be locat¬
ed in southwest Forsyth on the west
side of McFarland Road, on the
south side of Bluegrass Lake
Parkway and the north side of Ga.
400.
• Denied Tracey Cuthbertson
Reynolds’ request for a home occu¬
pation permit to run a pet parlor busi¬
ness. The property is located in
southeast Forsyth on the north side
See SAFETY, Page 2B
Jobless
rate falls
to 2.6%
in Forsyth
From staff reports
The unemployment rate in
Forsyth County decreased slightly
between February and March,
according to figures recently
released by the Georgia
Department of Labor.
A total of 1,637 people in
Forsyth found themselves out of
work in March, down from 1,715
in February — representing a
decrease in the overall unemploy¬
ment rate from 2.7 percent to 2.6
percent.
Of the counties surrounding
Forsyth, only Dawson has a lower
unemployment rate at 2.3 percent.
Fulton has the highest unem¬
ployment rate at 4.4 percent, mean¬
ing 18,852 people in that county
are out of work.
Despite the high unemployment
rate in Fulton, the cities of
Alpharetta and Roswell stayed at
1.7 percent each, two of the lowest
municipal unemployment rates in
the state.
The unemployment rate in
Atlanta decreased from 6.2 percent
to 6 percent.
Rates in other counties neigh¬
boring Forsyth are Cherokee at 3.2
percent, Gwinnett at 3.1 percent,
and Hall at 2.7 percent.
The unemployment rate in the
Georgia Mountains area for March
was 2.7 percent, a decline of two
tenths percent from 2.9 percent in
February.
During the same one-month
period, the number of employed
residents of the area increased by
1.619, or seven-tenths of a percent.
Unemployment rates in north
Georgia were lower than those in
other parts of the state.
In Georgia, the unemployment
rate for March was 3.6 percent, a
decline of two-tenths percent from
3.8 percent in February.
During the same one-month
period, the number of jobs in
Georgia increased by 14,300.
“We’re glad to see the unem¬
ployment rate remain below the 4
percent mark, and. for the first time
in quite a while, we saw some new
jobs created. We re hopeful that
these newly created jobs are a pre¬
cursor of things to come,” said
Georgia Labor Commissioner
Michael Thurmond,
“However, the pace of job cre¬
ation remains slow — at less that
one-half of 1 percent during the
past 12 months. A slow job market
is vulnerable to negative economic
forces that might arise and stall the
recovery," Thurmond said.
He added. “An additional con¬
cern is that wc have many long¬
term unemployed workers who
have exhausted their unemploy¬
ment insurance benefits without
finding replacement jobs while oth
ers have become discouraged and
dropped out of the job market alto¬
gether. Real improvement for these
workers can only come with signif¬
icant job creation."